Wildcat boys finish 6th best at tough Wamego Invitational

The EHS cross country teams competed at the Wamego Invitational on Saturday in their second race of the season.

Josh Prim

The EHS cross country teams competed at the Wamego Invitational on Saturday in their second race of the season.

The Wildcats were only able to field a full team at the boys’ varsity level.

El Dorado had a solid showing at one of the toughest courses on their schedule.

“After feeling like we got off to a good start last week at our first meet. I feel like we made progress and took another slight step forward this week. We have had more runners near the front so far this season. We also have a few ‘packs’ of runners who run together and help each other go,” said EHS head coach David Herrs.

Caitlynn Hamilton finished 11th in the JV girls race and was a medalist.

For the varsity girls freshman phenom Jolie Howland grabbed a 6th place finish, medaling and setting a new PR by 18 seconds.

“We seem to be running a little better early in races, and I think we are better at maintaining an appropriate pace during the race,” said Herrs.

The EHS varsity boys were led by John Scott who finished 16th with a PR of 1:04, Jacob Anders finished 17th with a PR of 2 seconds, Breck Towner placed 20th with a PR of 37 seconds, each of the top 3 runners for El Dorado were medalists.

“Our varsity boys were very close to earning a team medal (top 4). We were one point away from 4th, and lost a tie-breaker for 5th. We finished 6th out of 19 as a team at the varsity at the varsity boys level,” said Herrs.

Overall all EHS had 4 medalists and 8 personal records at Wamego.

EHS will have a short turnaround this week travelling to Buhler on Thursday.